Fox News hosts echoed Rush Limbaugh's accusation that President Obama will use children as "human shields" at a White House event on stronger gun laws. However, President Bush also had children in attendance during bill signings and announcements.

Limbaugh and Fox News attacked Obama over the announcement that the president will propose measures to reduce gun violence on Wednesday at the White House. The administration invited children to the event who had written Obama about their safety concerns following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

On the Tuesday edition of The Five, the co-hosts aired Limbaugh's "human shields" accusation, then voiced their own disgust. Co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle said the children were being used as "political pawns," while Eric Bolling said the event was in "bad taste" and "offensive."

But as co-hosts Dana Perino and Bob Beckel noted, this is not in any way an unprecedented event. In fact, Perino's former boss, President George W. Bush, had children attend the signing of the No Child Left Behind law in 2002:

In addition, Bush invited the families of so-called "snowflake" babies to the White House when he vetoed federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

Fox News' Bob Beckel was shouted down by his Five co-host Greg Gutfeld for attempting to report that 2012 was the hottest year on record in the contiguous United States. This was the network's first mention of the record heat, which has been covered by every major news outlet except for Fox.

As The New York Timesreported, the National Climatic Data Center announced this week that the average temperature in 2012 was 55.3 degrees, which broke the previous record by over a degree.

Reporting the news on The Five, Beckel started to say "For all the global warming deniers, 2012 was the hottest year on record," before Gutfeld interjected by shouting: "Lies."

Beckel's attempt to discuss the record heat announcement was the first time it earned a mention on Fox News, though all other major news outlets, including all the network news, PBS, CNN, and MSNBC, reported on the worrying milestone. His co-host's attempt to silence him is just the latest example by Fox figures to downplay climate change and its consequences.

To help recap and analyze last night's presidential debate, Fox News' America's Newsroom trotted out a string of former Bush administration officials -- including Donald Rumsfeld and John Bolton -- to pile accolades on Mitt Romney's performance and attack President Obama. The Bush veterans were joined by several conservative commentators, Romney surrogates, and the occasional Democrat.

Below is the list of non-reporter guests America's Newsroom featured this morning to comment on the debate, in order of appearance.

According to Fox's Kimberly Guilfoyle, the wearing of berets is "very Frenchy." Neither Guilfoyle nor any of her fellow The Five co-hosts indicated whether they think American military uniforms are also "very Frenchy."

Despite corrections to Fox & Friends by Media Matters, media outlets, and Fox's own audience, The Five picked up Fox & Friends' recent beret error by mocking the decision to top off the United States Olympic team uniform with a "French beret." Fox & Friends did acknowledge that most of the United States military wear berets, after receiving emails from their audience correction the error.

On Wednesday's edition of NBC's Today, American company Ralph Lauren unveiled the design for the U.S. Olympic team opening ceremony uniforms, which include a navy blue beret with red and white stripes. Fox & Friends mocked the decision to top off the uniform with a "French" hat.

As Media Matters noted at the time, berets have been in use by the U.S. military "unofficially as early as 1954," and as part of the official uniform as early as 1961. Moreover, the 2002 Olympic uniforms for the Salt Lake City Olympics also included berets.

Nonetheless, Fox News' The Five contributed its own mockery of the uniforms tonight.

Discussing the uniforms, Dana Perino asked fellow co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle: "A beret? Do you like the beret look?" Guilfoyle responded, "It's very Frenchy. I'm not too sure about that. I've been known to sport a beret every once in a while, but I don't know if it's in keep with kind of the Olympic tradition and some of the uniforms we've had in the past."

Moments later, co-host Bob Beckel said, "Why we'd ever look anything like the French, I have no idea. They're lousy athletes and their clothes are lousy."

Neither Guilfoyle nor Beckel mentioned that the United States military wear berets as part of their uniforms.

The New York Times was forced to issue two corrections after relying on Capitol Hill anonymous sourcing for its flawed report on emails from former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The Clinton debacle is the latest example of why the media should be careful when relying on leaks from partisan congressional sources -- this is far from the first time journalists who did have been burned.

Several Fox News figures are attempting to shift partial blame onto Samuel DuBose for his own death at the hands of a Cincinnati police officer during a traffic stop, arguing DuBose should have cooperated with the officer's instructions if he wanted to avoid "danger."

Iowa radio host Steve Deace is frequently interviewed as a political analyst by mainstream media outlets like NPR, MSNBC, and The Hill when they need an insider's perspective on the GOP primary and Iowa political landscape. However, these outlets may not all be aware that Deace gained his insider status in conservative circles by broadcasting full-throated endorsements of extreme right-wing positions on his radio show and writing online columns filled with intolerant views that he never reveals during main stream media appearances.